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Thanks. 'Sick' makes sense but the words of the first phrase are quite possibly not common words and so are more difficult. The alphabet is helpful but nowhere do I see anything remotely like Robert Hornblowe of Hurst, Berkshire which was the title of the will. More homework required. T

In handwriting of this period, the letter h has a long looped descender, making it look more like a g or y. This is what you see at the beginning of hurst. Relatively little of the letter is above the line, unless itís joined to a preceding long s, as in p(ar)ishe.

This sort of hand is not easy reading if you're new to it, but recognising the letters does come with practice, and if you need more help Iím sure people will oblige.

Thanks Bookbox & horselydown86. Getting like a tutorial and I am starting to look at things differently. The lack of capital letters in so many cases makes things more difficult. Line 6 in this will contains many repeated letters but even then the most I have got out has been "afforesaid" & "and". Pretty pathetic really so would be pleased for more help.Thanks, Toby.

Just to say, you are allowed to post SECTIONS of a document on here - don't think you are restricted to just the odd line. Just not supposed to post the whole document, (though that has been done sometimes! although the moderators might remove it as it breaches copyright.)If you want to post a 'chunk' to get into the swing of it, there will be people who can transcribe this. As Bookbox says, once you get to recognise the letters, this handwriting you have here is not too difficult.

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